Effective 1 January 2007.
Privacy Policy for SearchNearMe.com
- Our Commitment To Privacy
- The Information We Collect
- How We Use Information
- Our Commitment To Data Security
- Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
- How To Access Or Correct Your Information
- How To Contact Us
Our Commitment To Privacy
The privacy of visitors to SearchNearMe.com is important to us.
To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
The Information We Collect
General
This notice applies to all personal information collected or submitted on the SearchNearMe.com website. "Personal Information" means all information about an identifiable individual. SearchNearMe.com recognizes the importance of privacy and the sensitivity of personal information received by us in the course of providing our service. We recognize our professional obligation to maintain the confidentiality of our clients' information, and the personal information of all individuals that we collect, use or disclose in our practice. This policy has been developed to reflect our committment to meeting those obligations.
SearchNearMe.com collects personal information from you in order to create your login account where you can create and manage profiles across various channels. We currently collect your name and email address.
We also collect the information you provide when creating profiles (personal or otherwise) in order to present the information to those searching for such profiles.
SearchNearMe.com will not use or disclose your personal information for purposes other than those described in this policy.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
How We Use Information
We use you name and email address to communicate with you via email, should you request it, or should we need to contact you.
The information you provide when creating profiles is used to match other users' search criteria in order that they may find your profiles, and may be published in those profiles when browsed (unless stated otherwise). It is your responsibility to not provide any information in profiles that you do not wish to be published.
We also use third party advertisements on SearchNearMe.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Sydney real estate ads to someone in Sydney, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing dating related ads to someone who frequents dating sites).
SearchNearMe.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party companies or any other external websites linked to this site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these other websites when you leave our website.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by contacting us. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.
You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send us an email at Privacy@SearchNearMe.com.
